There’s a beautiful lake far away from the traffic and other people and it’s surrounded by hectares of forest, bees and in the late season, heather. I had no idea there were honeybees around at all, but apparently someone has a hive or two nearby.

It’s been a really, really amazing and hectic August and currently we’re making sure the bees are ready for overwintering, which creates it’s own chaos- though a good and rather organized one. Apparently I have gotten the “bug”- this infectious and intense disease that starts with admiring bees in general and ends up with everything in your life tied to those tiny and amazing creatures. It’s incurable, I’ve been told, so I’m just happily spreading the love of bees around.

In April 2013 I asked, “who will be taking care of the honeybees of our department?” Then everything just escalated ridiculously quickly and I have so many stories to tell and even more to come, only if I’d find the time to type them down. Luckily there’s a bunch (a couple of thousand) of photos insects taken during this summer so there’s always something to share.